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Spring 2016

Sound Manifestos — MHI2106.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

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Credits: 2

This course will examine the peculiar literary and musical interactions that happen when sound artists trumpet their innovations in short prose form. Starting with Russolo’s Futurist Manifesto, we will listen to the manifestos of sound-related movements, from Dada to Fluxus to minimalism, using a broad, multidisciplinary approach. Readings will include Marinetti, Cage, Satie,

Music

Speak Out — MOD2117.01; section 1

Spring 2016

Instructor: Tom Bogdan

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Credits: 1

We all have things that are important for us to say and we want to be heard. This module will help us to explore using our voices in a healthy way that will allow us to be heard more clearly. We will use simple exercises to develop breath support and vocal projection while learning about basic vocal production. We want to be reminded of what all babies know -- and what most

Drama Modules: Transferable Approaches

Speak Out — MOD2117.03; section 2

Spring 2016

Instructor: Tom Bogdan

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Credits: 1

Drama Modules: Transferable Approaches

Special Projects in Advanced Japanese — JPN4705.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

This course is designed for students to research/complete a project in their field of study/interest. In order to take this course, students are required to write a proposal of their project and be accepted by the instructor. Corequisite: Students are required to attend Language Series.

Languages

Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 4

The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship

Drama

Stars and Galaxies — PHY2106.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

All but a handful of the objects you see in the night sky are stars in our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Although we know about these stars only from studying the light that reaches us from them, we know today that they are not just points of light, but large, gravitationally‐bound balls of plasma governed by the laws of physics. Stars, together with dust, gas, and dark matter, are

Science Mathematics and Computing

Statistical Methods for Data Analysis — MAT2104.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Katie Montovan

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Credits: 4

This course focuses on developing the statistical skills needed to design studies, analyze large datasets and to be a critical consumer of statistical results. We will design studies, collect and analyze data, and create effective presentations of results. We will also analyze large observational datasets. Emphasis will be placed on gaining a solid conceptual understanding of

CAPA Environment Science Mathematics and Computing

String Chamber Ensemble — MPF4235.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Kaori Washiyama

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Credits: 2

Music for string ensemble to be selected according to number and level of participants. Corequisite: Must participate and perform in Music Workshop (T 6:30pm - 8:00pm)

Music

Studying Place: Projects — ENV4216.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Kerry Woods, Donald Sherefkin

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Credits: 4

***New description*** How have interactions between culture and biological/physical environment shaped the history and current nature of the ��Ź�� community and its surroundings? How does their interplay constrain and enable its future? How might planning for ��Ź��’s future best recognize this history and build on the landscape presented by it? Students will

Visual Arts Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Style and Tone in Essay Writing — LIT2397.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier

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Credits: 4

This introductory course focuses on the weekly writing of extended essays, including nonfiction narrative, personal essay, literary criticism, research writing, and the analytical essay. It gives particular attention to developing individual voice and command of the elements of style. The class incorporates group editing in a workshop setting with an emphasis on re-writing. It

Literature

Style in Motion: Costume Design for Dance — DRA4310.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker

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Credits: 4

We will be designing costumes that are unrealized 'paper' projects as well as realized costumes for new works. Class members may work with student choreographers, utilizing this class as a resource in the creative process. We will also work, as a group, on designing the clothes for a new work choreographed by Dance faculty member Dana Reitz.

Dance Drama

Talking to Children: Who, Why and How Much? — PSY4132.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: David Anderegg

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Credits: 4

This class will examine current research and practice in encouraging early literacy by talking to, and reading to, children. The field is now dominated by research findings suggesting that social class differences in the amount of language children hear accounts for differences in early literacy, school readiness and school performance. We will examine that evidence in detail,

Society Culture and Thought

Technique, Phrasing, and Performance — DAN4321.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

This is designed for those who have made dance work and are interested in further developing a sense of personal movement phrasing. Full attention is paid to detail, nuance, and finesse of any phrase material that is made. Students use phrasing as a way to explore compositional, technical and performance issues and consider how aspects of dance making, technique and performance

Dance

The Actor's Instrument — DRA2170.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

An actor honors and bears witness to humanity by embodying and giving voice to the human element in the landscape of theatrical collaboration. Investigating the impulses and intuitions that make us unique as individuals can also identify that which constitutes our shared humanity. Through exploration of the fundamentals of performance, students address the actor’s body, voice,

Drama

The Archive in Art — VA2209.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Liz Deschenes

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Credits: 2

This seven-week course is an introduction to the archive and how it has been central to artistic production of the 20th and 21st centuries. Though the course is only a brief introduction, there will be an emphasis on how the archive has been utilized by artists to subvert and question conventional notions of the archive and related power structures. Students will be given short

Visual Arts

The Art of Brevity: Linguistic Conciseness in the Spanish and Latin American Traditions — SPA4129.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

Baltasar Gracián, master of the aphorism, summed it up this way: "Something good, if brief, is twice as good." Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares sought in the microrrelato (a very short story) "the essence of narrative". In our time, compressed political slogans or tweets compete to attract the fragmented attention of the public. This course will explore the

Languages

The Art of Mathematics — MAT2439.01

Spring 2016

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Credits: 4

Are you interested in the interplay between art and mathematics? In this class, we will explore striking visual and spatial concepts that arise in sophisticated modern mathematics. We will do so without assuming any mathematical prerequisites. Topics include the structure of Moebius strips and solids; topology (the stretching and bending of space); the fourth dimension; the

Science Mathematics and Computing

The Bible and Conflict Resolution — MOD2137.02

Spring 2016

Instructor: Michael Cohen

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Credits: 1

The Bible provides many examples and lessons about conflict resolution. This three-week module will focus on some of the most important texts in the Bible when it comes to conflict resolution. Those selected texts will be examined using two thousand years of commentary and analysis. Modern conflict resolution theories, which provide contemporary approaches, will be integrated

CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Bible and the Environment — MOD2254.03

Spring 2016

Instructor: Michael Cohen

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Credits: 1

This module will analyze the environmental dimensions and lessons of the Bible with a primary focus on the books of Genesis and Psalms. Through the use of ancient and contemporary commentators the environmental messages of the Biblical texts will be examined as a means to confront and explore our relationship to the environment. The course will also examine the scores of

Environment Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Black Aesthetic — LIT4267.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 4

This course will focus on the history and practice of the black aesthetic, as it has been defined by African Americans from three incarnations: slave narratives, the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s and 30’s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960’s and its evolution thru the end of the 20th Century. There will be assigned readings from various literary critics,

Literature

The Film Trailer Project — FRE4119.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 4

In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French language and cultural

Languages

The Fine Art of Physical Computing — DA4261.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Robert Ransick

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Credits: 4

This course aims to extend our notions of the creative fine art potential of computers by exploring uses beyond standard mouse/keyboard/screen interaction. Moving away from these restrictions the course introduces students to basic electronics and programming an Arduino (microcontroller) to read sensors placed in physical objects or the environment. Projects are designed to

Visual Arts

The Harlem Renaissance — LIT2403.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 4

In Harlem, during the decade separating the end of World War I and the beginning of the Depression, a generation of black artists and writers born around the turn of the century emerged as a self-conscious movement, flourished, and then dispersed. They described themselves as part of a “New Negro Renaissance”; cultural historians describe them as participants in the Harlem

Literature

The Human Animal — BIO2118.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 4

Humans are animals and share many traits with other animals. In this class a biologist and dancer will engage students in an exploration of structures and functions that permit all animals to process information, move, and react to their environments. How have these structures and functions evolved? Can these insights inform how humans think, respond, move, and create?

Science Mathematics and Computing Dance

The Key To Songs — MTH4419.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

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Credits: 4

A seminar on advanced harmony, based on in-class analyses of a broad range of classical, pop, and jazz songs. Students will learn about chromaticism, pivot chords, modulation, and extended triadic harmonies, while composing songs in a variety of styles. Students must have a good knowledge of notation and harmony, be willing to tackle in-depth harmonic analyses and aural

Music